. Where to find birds and enjoy natural history in Florida. Birds. Section V. Soutn Florida and Grand Banama. DRY TORTUGAS Wliile the islands 70 miles west of Key West, in the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Dry Tortugas, are in general inaccessible, it is possible that some bird watching enthusiasts may find a way of reaching this area. The Tropical Audu- bon Society of Miami makes a two-day excursion there each May. Banding expeditions are carried out in May and July by the P'lorida Audubon Society, the National Park Service, and the Florida State Museum, cooperating, but these trips are limite
. Where to find birds and enjoy natural history in Florida. Birds. Section V. Soutn Florida and Grand Banama. DRY TORTUGAS Wliile the islands 70 miles west of Key West, in the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Dry Tortugas, are in general inaccessible, it is possible that some bird watching enthusiasts may find a way of reaching this area. The Tropical Audu- bon Society of Miami makes a two-day excursion there each May. Banding expeditions are carried out in May and July by the P'lorida Audubon Society, the National Park Service, and the Florida State Museum, cooperating, but these trips are limited to an invited group of ten to fifteen bird banders, who stay on the islands from a week to ten days each trip. Those with their own seaworthy boats or who have friends travelling by boat in this section, might have opportunity to visit the Dry Tortugas. No accommodations are provided either for lodging or meals, and all parties visiting there have to carry their own food, water, and equipment, with them. Fort Jefferson is interesting historically. An account of the Dry Tortugas, now the Fort Jefferson National Monu- ment, under the administration of Everglades National Park, may be secured from the Park Service in Homestead, Florida. The islands arc the site of the only nesting colonies of Sooty and Brown Noddy Terns in North America, and the only extensive nesting colony of Roseate Terns between Virginia and Texas. The colonies are active only from May to September. Qn Garden Key, where the Fort is located, and on the other Keys as well, numbers of migrating birds pause briefly both spring and fall. There are other species of interest, hundreds of Magnificent Frigatebirds are present in summer, and occasionally Brown and Blue-faced Boobies may be sighted. A complete roster of the birds, written by Alexander Sprunt, Jr., was pubhshed in serial form in the Florida Naturdist in 1962 and 1963. Margaret H. Hundley EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK Everglades National Park is one of Americ
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